It's all about getting the edge on your opposition, getting more damage on our target while stopping that bastard who dared to challenge us from doing the same. BRR is a damage machine, the orc racial gives us a juicy AP/RAP boost every 2 mins that leaves a trail of bodies along the road to Stormpike, The stables, or Silverwing hold.Today I'm going to cover the 4 different races available to the hunters of blood thirsty Horde masses. Blizzard couldn't keep pets from gnawing on their owners' legs if they were undead so the Forsaken shall be mention no more. Orcs, Trolls, Tauren and most recently Bloodelves may all choose hunters. They each have useful abilities to assist them in knocking down the Allies they cross paths with.
Orcs.- An increased 15% resist to stuns and knockout effects - Great for stun locking rogues and charging/intercepting warriors.
- a 5% extra damage multiplier for our pets damage - Speaks for itself, BM hunters love extra damage for our not so little friends.
- Blood Fury, (2 min cool down) Increase AP (including RAP) for 15 seconds (4 AP per level, 282 at 70) with the caveat of reducing heals on you by 50% for the same time - Excellent skill with the potently to yield anywhere from 8% to 20% damage boost depending on your gear. BRR personally gets a 12% damage boost.
- +5 to Axe skill - A small crit bonus for those Raptor strike/Wing Clip hits as you move back out of range, or finish an injured play who got to close.
Trolls- +5 range weapon skill - As with orc axes it gives some extra crit chance (about 0.2%)
- Beserking, Your attack speed will increase by 10-30% for 10 seconds depending on your health at the time - This is very useful but you need to badly hurt to take full advantage of it but 10% speed is still a lot of extra damage
- +10 on your HP regen, and 10% of it can continue in combat - Better than nothing but it is minimal when compared with spirit bond.
- +5% damage to beasts - Mainly a PVE skill, but works on druids and other hunters pets.
Tauren
- +5% health - Extra HP never hurts
- War stomp stuns enemies (up to 5) in melee range (2m cool down) - Great for when your stuck in the scrum and need and a few seconds to get out.
- +10 nature resist - More use now that Allies have Shammies too, but still low use in PVP.
Bloodelves- Mana tap, suck a little mana from an enemy (who has mana), and stores it as a charge up to 3 times. (30 sec cool down) - Only drains a minor amount of mana only useful for charging up Arcane Torrent really.
- Arcane Torrent, releases those stored charges for some mana restore per charge and an 8 yard silence effect (2 min cool down) - This is a nice little shocker for any casters trying to exploit your dead zone but of limited use due to it's range. Very situational.
- Increased resistance by +5 to all schools of magic - Minimal but better than a poke in the eye.
BRR is an orc, take that as a strong endorsement of their suitability as a PVP race. We make no pretense of neutrality. Orcs receive 3 racials with Strong PVP use. Trolls really only get 1 though it is strong. The orcs' Blood Fury is almost as much extra damage on a shorter cool down, and after the 2.0 patch upgrades to pets, even your pet will receive a nice DPS boost from it.
Trolls get a similar or even greater boost to their damage output through Beserking but must be at a low health to make it more effective than Blood Fury. It also doesn't affect their pets dps. In BGs even more so than PVE often your pet is doing an even greater portion of your damage output. In the right situation you can get double or even triple the effect gained from Blood Fury and we know many a troll hunter who swears by this skill. It scales better with high end gear than Blood Fury too.
Our post this morning has become rather longer than intended. We shall endeavour to limit our rambling analysis is future to shorter subjects. Until then may your aim be true and your foes slow witted.
- BRR out
